Agtech Innovation
Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : February 11, 2026 at 8:00 am
On a July day, ahead of the 2025 growing season, a team from Bushel Plus (soon to be BranValt) met up in the shop at EMILI’s Innovation Farms Centre to install a prototype of a split frame concave on a John Deere X9 combine. They wanted to see how the prototype operated in real-world conditions throughout the growing season, to validate its abili
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : February 2, 2026 at 10:46 am
EMILI is proud to be among the nominees as Manitoba’s innovators take centre stage on February 24, 2026 when North Forge hosts Manitoba's inaugural DARE Innovation Awards at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : January 29, 2026 at 9:30 am
EMILI’s Innovation Farms powered by AgExpert is fertile ground for agtech companies to test and validate technology in their mission to make agriculture more efficient, and producers’ jobs easier. Elmer’s Manufacturing has been working with EMILI over the past several seasons to validate three of these technologies and their components.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : January 20, 2026 at 8:00 am
Early in the 2025 growing season, an Arable Mark 3 station was deployed in an irrigated potato field on EMILI’s Innovation Farms powered by AgExpert. While the device collected field-level irrigation and crop performance data, a team from EMILI evaluated the benefits of adopting it.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : December 16, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Thank you to all of the producers, industry, investors, and innovators who collaborated with us in 2025! Your support represents a big investment in the future of digital agriculture. Click on the video below to watch a short "year in review" video highlighting some of the ways you showed up for us this year!
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : December 11, 2025 at 8:00 am
EMILI and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) recently spoke at Farm Management Canada's Agriculture Excellence Conference about the importance of increasing on-farm adoption of new technologies and innovation in order to increase productivity growth in Canada's agriculture sector.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : December 3, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Over 210 attendees from across Canada and the globe gathered in Winnipeg on October 23, 2025 for EMILI’s sixth annual Agriculture Enlightened conference.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : November 27, 2025 at 9:43 am
In a recent article on ways that Manitoba businesses are adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Jacqueline Keena shared insight into how AI is being used to inform decision-making in the agriculture industry.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : November 19, 2025 at 8:35 am
Rick Rutherford is a third-generation farmer whose deep passion for agriculture has led to local and international partnerships focused on advancing innovation and supporting the next generation of farmers. Rutherford is the first producer EMILI partnered with when launching Innovation Farms powered by AgExpert in 2022.
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Post by : Jennifer Cox | Post on : November 12, 2025 at 12:00 pm
"Canada’s PMRA says pesticides need drone-specific labels before drone spraying can take off; Manitoba crop trials are adding data towards that process," opens an article in the Manitoba Cooperator highlighting field trials conducted at Innovation Farms during the 2025 season. Kevin Falk shared a few highlights of those trials with the Agricultu
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